House passes gun-control bill in response to Va. Tech

AP via Yahoo! ^ | 06-13-07 | Jim Abrams

[Charlespg]

he was judged to be a danger to him self and others.thats more then just seeing a shrink

[neverdem]

I thought the VaTech shooter was a valid firearms purchaser, even with the ordered outpatient treatment. Is that not correct?

No. Virginia courts ruled Cho 'an imminent danger'

That usually means the person is considered a threat to himself or others. IIRC in NY State, if 2 docs attest to that, that means involuntary commitment to a psych facility until you are not considered a threat any more. It would cause a disability on a NICS check in states that don't have privacy protections. A story in the NY Times said they found psych meds in his room. Other stories said he didn't follow up with outpatient treatment.

And will that soon be expanded to those who go for voluntary treatment?

That's what I fear. With the computerization of writing prescriptions for psychiatric meds, and their use for various diagnoses besides major depression with suicidal ideation, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, there's a potential possibility that could cause a disability on a NICS check. You know the grabbers would like to include all sorts of diagnoses if they could. I'd like to see the text of the bill.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

agreed, but he wasn’t COMMITTED..that’s the difference..he was sent on an outpatient basis..

[Travis McGee]

That’s coming like day following night, if the rats win in 2008.

[paul51]

mentally ill will be anyone that wants to own a handgun

[paul51]

mentally ill will be anyone that wants to own a handgun

[kcar]

Sure, carefully scrutinize legitimate citizens exercising their enumerated Constitutional rights. Meanwhile no one checks anything re: some 12 million illegals (plus or minus a million). In fact many police organizations are prohibited from inquiring about their legal status.

Common Sense has tumbled over and severely gashed his head.

[Nachoman]

I just wrote the NRA and told them they wouldn’t receive my pledge because of their support for this bill.

[Myrddin]

McCarthy was interviewed after this was passed. She was salivating at the prospect that MILLIONS of names would be added to the database of ineligible buyers.

[BigTom85]

This is why Ron Paul has my vote.

[budwiesest]

The proper (constitutional) way to keep guns out of the hands of kooks is: to let them have them, and then shoot them out of their hands. Works every time.

[from occupied ga]

The NRA (I’m a life member) is getting just like GWB and capitulating to the dark side

The NRA has been finding ways to work with anti-gunners since 1968

[meyer]

And will that soon be expanded to those who go for voluntary treatment?

Of course it will. The left will stop at nothing to disarm the public. Socialists love an unarmed subject.

[Tribune7]

I thought the VaTech shooter was a valid firearms purchaser, even with the ordered outpatient treatment.

That's how I understand it.

IIRC, the problem was that he he was not/could not be involuntarily commited or adjudicated mentally incompetent (thanks ACLU.)

And of course, that Virginia Tech was a "gun free" zone.

Wonder why our legislators don't want to solve the real problems?

[meyer]

This is all horsehockey anyway. The one thing that would have prevented the VA Tech massacre from escalating above a single shooting or two would have been an armed student or two.

You don't see these types of massacres in areas where the general population is likely to be armed - only in liberal-controlled areas where people have had their right to keep and bear arms removed by law.

[gedeon3]

Many professors and doctors say that being a Christian, or a right winger is a mental disorder; one day they could use such law to deny us the right to purchase weapons, by categorizing us as insane. Hillary would surely do it.

[Turret Gunner A20]

Wonder why our legislators don't want to solve the real problems?

They never have -- don't think they will start now?

[Clemenza]

I wish Nurse McCarthy (who represents my childhood district, once held by the great Norman Lent), would go back to emptying bedpans. She is a one-note congresscritter who just votes straight left on the other issues she’s too busy to think about.